I don't know about annoying, but there certainly are a couple of incongruous ones.

Exhibit a)

Exhibit b)

Exhibit c)

Exhibit d & e)

Exhibit f)

Anyway I'm gonna get back to the and while I try to have a and cultivate the as a foundation for some

and to all.

with mettaJack

"For a disciple who has conviction in the Teacher's message & lives to penetrate it, what accords with the Dhamma is this:'The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I." - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta

pink_trike wrote:Most of them are one-dimensional and lack subtlety. How often do we really roll on the floor laughing?

I miss the smiley face tipping his hat that the grey forum has.

Thats true, nothings THAT funny.Which reminds me of the conversation between Mick Jagger and the Veteren Jazzer George Melly." Mick how did your face get so lined ?"" They are laughter lines George"" Mick... nothings that funny."

Smileys are the vermin of online communication.Soon, all we'll be doing is grunting and posting smileys.It makes my blood run cold thinking that perhaps some of you are already there - beyond help...

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” - Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:in mountain clefts and chasms,loud gush the streamlets,but great rivers flow silently.- Sutta Nipata 3.725

Smileys are not annoying. Smilies are an exploration of a new medium of communication. And as always, there are those who just don't like them consarned new fangled horseless carriages. My favorite smiley is the one that does laundry, but it is not available here. Ok nuff trolling let's see what bites.

catmoon wrote:Smileys are not annoying. Smilies are an exploration of a new medium of communication. And as always, there are those who just don't like them consarned new fangled horseless carriages. My favorite smiley is the one that does laundry, but it is not available here. Ok nuff trolling let's see what bites.

If a person does not like smileys he or she is a Luddite? Let me quote some Shakespeare concerning that jaundiced point of view: . Such eloquence.

This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond.SN I, 38.

Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireas na daoine.People live in one another’s shelter.

pink_trike wrote:Most of them are one-dimensional and lack subtlety. How often do we really roll on the floor laughing?

I miss the smiley face tipping his hat that the grey forum has.

Thats true, nothings THAT funny.Which reminds me of the conversation between Mick Jagger and the Veteren Jazzer George Melly." Mick how did your face get so lined ?"" They are laughter lines George"" Mick... nothings that funny."

He turns his mind away from those phenomena, and having done so, inclines his mind to the property of deathlessness: 'This is peace, this is exquisite — the resolution of all fabrications; the relinquishment of all acquisitions; the ending of craving; dispassion; cessation; Unbinding.' (Jhana Sutta - Thanissaro Bhikkhu translation)

Ben wrote:Smileys are the vermin of online communication.Soon, all we'll be doing is grunting and posting smileys.It makes my blood run cold thinking that perhaps some of you are already there - beyond help...